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Windows fleet monitoring that sees every machine, everywhere, before it becomes a problem.

WINMON watches CPU, memory, disk, network, uptime, and Windows event-log errors across every site, and alerts your team the moment something needs attention, without installing anything on the machines themselves.

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Fleet status

  • HQ-BACKOFFICE-01Online
  • STORE-04-POS-02Warning
  • STORE-11-POS-01Critical
  • WAREHOUSE-SRV-01Online
  • STORE-07-BACKOFFICEPaused

Fleet CPU loadLast 60 min

Illustrative status view. Entries shown are examples, not live data.

Overview

What WINMON is

WINMON is an agentless, multi-tenant monitoring platform for fleets of Windows machines. It watches the health of every Windows PC, server, or point-of-sale terminal across one or many sites (CPU, memory, disk, network, uptime, disk health, and Windows event-log errors) and surfaces problems on a live dashboard and through instant WhatsApp and in-app alerts, without installing any software on the machines being monitored.

A small collector application runs on one always-on machine per site, reaches out to the other Windows machines over the network, collects their metrics, and pushes them to the WINMON cloud. The cloud evaluates the numbers against configurable thresholds, keeps a live picture of the whole fleet, and notifies the right people the moment something crosses the line.

Demo

A morning across forty pay points

Follow one ordinary morning across a retail chain's machines, from a filling drive to a site going dark.

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Online 40Warning 0Unreachable 0Offline 0

Store 11

2 shown
  • STORE-11-POS-01C: 76%Online
  • STORE-11-BACKOFFICEC: 38%Online

Store 07

2 shown
  • STORE-07-POS-01C: 51%Online
  • STORE-07-POS-02C: 48%Online

Store 04

2 shown
  • STORE-04-POS-01C: 44%Online
  • STORE-04-POS-02C: 62%Online

Head office

2 shown
  • HQ-BACKOFFICE-01C: 41%Online
  • HQ-FILESRV-01C: 67%Online

Every store on one screen

The collector at each store reports in, and every pay point, back-office PC, and server shows its health on one live board.

Illustrative demo. Companies, machines, people, and readings are examples.

How It Works

Three components, one system

Each part is developed and deployed independently, and works together as one product.

Collector

On-site, one per site

Polls machines over WinRM and pushes metrics over HTTPS. Credentials never leave this machine.

Cloud Backend

API + evaluation

Validates payloads, evaluates thresholds, and broadcasts live status. Zero command-execution capability.

Dashboard

Web application

Live fleet view, machine detail, notifications, and settings, updated over WebSockets.

The cloud pushes alerts out over WhatsApp and the in-app notification feed whenever a threshold or state change warrants it.

Business Problem

The problems WINMON solves

  • No visibility across sites until someone on-site complains
  • Agent sprawl and refusal to install software on locked-down POS hardware
  • Finding out about failures too late, after the outage
  • Alert fatigue from buried emails and flooded inboxes
  • Monitoring credentials leaving the customer's network
  • After-hours alert noise for closed sites
  • Managing many clients with separate, inconsistent tools

Capabilities

What it does

  • Agentless machine monitoring (CPU, memory, disk, disk health, network, uptime, event-log errors)
  • Clear machine health statuses: online, warning, critical, unreachable, offline, paused, pending
  • Four-level threshold hierarchy: machine, site, company, sensible defaults
  • In-app and WhatsApp alerting with flap-damping, digest merging, and rate limiting
  • Monitoring windows (business hours) so alerts respect after-hours quiet
  • Collector heartbeat and offline detection
  • Notification feed with CSV export
  • Multi-tenant company administration with provisioning, pause/suspend, and delete
  • Role-based access: superadmin, admin, operator, viewer
  • Machine and site management with automatic change propagation
  • Collector token issuance, rotation, and signed auto-update
  • Real-time dashboard with live WebSocket updates and light/dark modes

Machine Detail

Drill into any machine, in one click

Every machine has its own live view: current resource usage and a recent event history, so you're never guessing what changed or when.

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Resource usage

CPU62%
Memory74%
Disk41%
Network18%

Recent events

Machine back online after 4 min unreachable
Disk usage crossed warning threshold (80%)
Monitoring window entered after-hours quiet

Detailed Capabilities

WINMON feature by feature

What each capability does, and why it matters.

Agentless Machine Monitoring

Tracks CPU, memory, disk, disk health, network, uptime, and event-log errors on every machine.

For every monitored machine, WINMON collects CPU utilisation, memory used, disk used (worst drive), disk health, network adapter state, uptime and last boot time, plus a count and detail of recent Windows event-log errors. Nothing is installed on the machines themselves; everything is gathered remotely over WinRM by the on-site collector.

Full visibility into every machine's health without installing or maintaining agent software anywhere.

Machine Health Statuses

A clear status per machine: online, warning, critical, unreachable, offline, paused, or pending.

Each machine resolves to one clear status that drives its colour on the dashboard, so a team can tell at a glance which machines need attention and which are healthy.

No guessing which machines matter right now. The dashboard tells you immediately.

Threshold Hierarchy & Evaluation

A four-level threshold hierarchy: machine, site, company, then sensible defaults.

Thresholds resolve machine-specific, then site/branch, then company-wide, then built-in defaults, most specific wins. An operator can set one global standard, tighten it for a particular site, and override it for a single sensitive machine, all without touching everything else.

One consistent standard across the fleet, with room to tune sensitive machines individually.

In-App & WhatsApp Alerting

Alerts land in the dashboard and on WhatsApp, with flap-damping and digest merging.

When a machine crosses a threshold or recovers, WINMON adds an entry to the in-app notification feed and sends a WhatsApp message to configured recipients. Repeated alerts are throttled, a mass event is merged into one summary message, and a global send queue prevents the sender number from ever being blocked.

Alerts that people actually see and trust, instead of buried emails or blocked numbers.

Monitoring Windows (Business Hours)

Define the hours alerts are allowed to fire, on Africa/Johannesburg time.

Each company can define monitoring hours. Outside those hours the machine is still monitored and the dashboard still updates, but outbound alerts are suppressed, so nobody is woken at 2 a.m. for a store that's closed.

No wasted after-hours call-outs for sites that are simply closed.

Collector Health & Offline Detection

WINMON monitors its own collectors, so a silent one is caught and flagged, not mistaken for good news.

Each collector heartbeats to the cloud. If a collector stops reporting, the platform detects it, surfaces the collector as offline on the dashboard, and alerts, so a site going dark is never mistaken for a quiet, healthy site.

Confidence that silence means everything is fine, not that monitoring itself has failed.

Multi-Tenancy & Company Administration

Provision, pause, or delete isolated company tenants from one platform.

Each customer is a fully isolated Company with its own machines, users, thresholds, recipients, sites, and collectors. Platform administrators can provision a new company in one step, pause or suspend a company as an enforced lock-out, or permanently delete a tenant.

One platform serves many independent customers or many branches of one business, safely.

Machine & Site Management

Add, edit, pause, or remove machines from the dashboard. Changes apply automatically.

Authorised users can add a machine, edit it in place, pause or resume monitoring, delete it, and group machines by site or branch. Changes take effect on the collector's next cycle, with no site visit required.

Fleet changes without a technician visiting the site.

Collector Management & Signed Auto-Update

High-entropy per-site tokens, mock mode for demos, and cryptographically signed updates.

Each site's collector is issued a unique high-entropy token that can be rotated or revoked independently. Collector updates are cryptographically signed and verified on-device before being applied, with fail-closed verification and canary-first roll-outs.

A fleet of collectors that can be kept current safely and centrally.

Who It's For

Teams that use WINMON

  • Multi-site retailers and franchises
  • Managed Service Providers (MSPs)
  • Internal IT teams
  • Businesses with remote or unattended sites

Business Benefits

Why WINMON pays off

  • Fewer and shorter outages, problems are caught before they escalate
  • Protected revenue at the point of sale, failing drives and full disks are flagged early
  • Lower IT overhead, no agents to deploy or maintain, no site visits required
  • A defensible security story: credentials stay on-site, the cloud can't reach in

Pricing

One flat fee for all of WINMON

Every capability is included. There are no feature tiers, and no edition to upgrade to.

Every monitored machine

R90per machine, per month

R1,080 per year, excl. VAT

What that includes

  • Agentless monitoring, with nothing installed on the machines being monitored
  • CPU, memory, disk usage, disk health, network, and uptime on every machine
  • Windows event-log error collection, with counts and detail
  • Machine health statuses: online, warning, critical, unreachable, offline, paused, and pending
  • Four-level threshold hierarchy: machine, site, company, and sensible defaults
  • In-app notification feed with CSV export
  • WhatsApp alerting with flap-damping, digest merging, and rate limiting
  • Monitoring windows, so alerts stay quiet after hours for closed sites
  • Collector heartbeat and offline detection, so a silent site is never mistaken for a healthy one
  • Machine and site management, with changes propagating on the collector's next cycle
  • Collector token issuance, rotation, and cryptographically signed auto-update
  • Real-time dashboard with live updates, in light and dark mode
  • Role-based access: superadmin, admin, operator, and viewer
  • Multi-tenant company administration with provisioning, pause, and suspend
  • No per-user fees, pricing is per machine only

All prices in South African Rand, excluding VAT.

Run a proof of concept

See WINMON working on a sample of your own systems before you commit. We set it up with your team and agree up front what a successful trial looks like.

Ask for a proof of concept

Pricing for larger estates

Covering hundreds or thousands of machines, servers, databases, or assets? For larger corporates, pricing can be adjusted on volume. Tell us the size of the estate and we'll quote.

Get a volume quote

FAQ

WINMON frequently asked questions

No. WINMON is agentless: a single collector runs on one always-on machine per site and reaches out to the other machines over the network. Nothing is installed on the machines being monitored.

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